reading-notes

Class 6: Intro to JavaScript

Resources

• JS Intro Paragraph
• Intro to JS - Basic Output
• JS Input w/Prompt and Confirm
• How Computers Work Playlist

Notes

• JS is a lightweight, interpreted, or just-in-time compiled programming language with first-class functions.
• Prototype-based, multi-paradigm, single-threaded, dynamic language supporting object-orientated, imperative, and functional programming styles.
• Well known as the scripting language for Web pages.
• Standards are the ECMAScript Language Specification.
• JavaScript and Java are NOT the same.
• Any text editor can be used. But we like VScode :)
• Input/Output
  • How we interact with JS in the browse (Prompt/Alert)
• 3 Major Parts Usually Refered to as JavaScript
  • 1. The language itself.
  • 1. The DOM-API - how the language can interact with various parts of a web page.
  • 1. API - (the server API) provided by Node.js or one of the other server-side systems.

Things I Would Like to Know More About

I clearly know NOTHING about the binary language that is the basis of all software.